B Online Learning

insidehighered | March 16, 2020

As the new coronavirus outbreak prompted college after university to start shifting classes online -- either for a few weeks or for the remainder of the spring semester -- education technology companies lined up to say they could help. Tech vendors promoting various free services for colleges or their employees included, in no particular order, communications provider Avaya, chat and video messaging provider Pronto, learning platform Top Hat, game-based learning platform Kahoot!, messaging and n...

prnewswire | October 08, 2020

X2O Media, global provider of virtual collaboration technology for education and enterprise, today announced the launch of its first installation of the X2O Virtual Classroom in Canada. Executive Education HEC Montréal has selected X2O Media to provide an immersive virtual classroom for the renowned business school to deliver engaging online courses for its Executive Education program. X2O Media, part of the STRATACACHE family of technology companies, collaborated with AV-integration part...

edsurge | January 27, 2020

Last year Harvard Business School’s online operation got a new name. Now it has a new leader as well. A few months ago, Debora Spar took the helm at Harvard Business School Online, after a rocky year-long stint as the president of the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York City. Spar has plenty of experience in higher education, having served as president of Barnard College and as a professor at the brick-and-mortar Harvard Business School. So what are her plans for this upstar...

educationdive | April 01, 2020

The U.S. Department of Education issued proposed rules for distance learning Wednesday, following a months-long rulemaking process last year. The proposal seeks to give schools more flexibility for providing online programs, such as by reducing some barriers to offering competency-based education and providing latitude for measuring the credit hour. However, some observers say the 30-day comment period on the rules doesn't give stakeholders enough time to adequately review and respond ...